Rewind…

Let’s rewind for a second. Although we are only days away from leaving for our Intensive Therapy session, this whole process actually started about 6 months ago. I feel I need to give you a little background on how we got to where we are today so you can fully appreciate our story.

It was back near the end of August, I was scrolling mindlessly through Facebook when I came upon a post from a fellow Spina Bifida (SB) mom. She had just completed a three week intensive therapy with her son and he had seen amazing results. I had never heard of intensive therapy, but she had peaked my interest. So I messaged her asking what this whole intensive therapy thing was.

The gist of it was that, it is a program where your kid goes to therapy (physical and occupational) for 3-5 hours a day, 5 days a week for 3 weeks. My first thought was “wow that is a lot of therapy in a short amount of time.” Our usual therapy routine is 1 hr/once a week. That is like cramming 15 weeks worth of therapy sessions into one week. But studies have shown this model of therapy is super effective.

So I began researching, because it is what I do best. I scoured the internet for all things “intensive therapy”. The more I read the more I knew I wanted Kyle to go. The results were amazing. Months worth of progress in just 3 weeks. Something deep down told me that I must get Kyle into one of these programs. But how? Where?

Cue more research. I reached out to other mom’s who had been through it. I found another military mom who had just completed a session with her son. I picked her brain on all things insurance and processes to getting into the program.

Just a few short weeks after I had first learned of intensive therapy, I was submitting our application to be accepted. Our journey to intensive therapy had officially begun…little did I know how long a road it would be to get there.